w_isInstanceOf {wikiTools}

Check if a Wikidata entity is an instance of a class

Description

Check using WDQS if the Wikidata entities in entity_list are instances of instanceof Wikidata entity class. For example, if instanceof="Q5", check if entities are instances of the Wikidata entity class Q5, i.e, are humans. Some entity classes are allowed, separately by '|'; in this case, the OR operator is considered. If instanceof=” then no filter is applied: the function returns all Wikidata entities class of which each of the entities in the list are instances. Duplicated entities are deleted before search. Note that no labels or descriptions of the entities are returned. Please, use function w_LabelDesc for this.

Usage

w_isInstanceOf(entity_list, instanceof = "", nlimit = 50000, debug = FALSE)

Arguments

entity_list

A vector with the Wikidata entities.

instanceof

The Wikidata class to check, mandatory. Some entity classes separated by '|' are allowed, in this case, the OR operator is considered.

nlimit

If the number of entities exceeds this number, chunked queries are done. This is the number of entities requested in each chunk. Please, reduce the default value if error is raised.

debug

For debugging purposes (default FALSE). If debug='info' information about chunked queries is shown. If debug='query' also the query launched is shown.

Value

A data-frame with three columns, first Wikidata entity, second all Wikidata class each instance is instance of them, last TRUE or FALSE if each entity is instance of the instanceof parameter, if this one is set.

Author(s)

Angel Zazo, Department of Computer Science and Automatics, University of Salamanca

Examples

## Not run: 
# aux: get a vector of entities (l).
df <- w_SearchByLabel(string='Iranzo', langsorder='es|en', mode='inlabel')
l <- df$entity

df <- w_isInstanceOf(entity_list=l, instanceof='Q5')
# Not TRUE
df[!df$instanceof_Q5,]

## End(Not run)